Delay update ... "Extraordinary and excessive" delay - by the litigants ... Contest on costs ... Getting to grips with Qld industrial law takes time ... What is a "worker"? ... What is an "injury"? ... Justice Jenni frigging around ... Slow grind for earnest Circuiteer ... From judges' associate Ginger Snatch ... Read more >>
A biopsy on bias ... Darryl Rangiah and Oscar Wilde … A unity ticket … White flags at Ultimo … The Hyphen … BBC also on the ropes … Cease – FIRE … Why is Murdoch’s bias always wrong about everything? ... Read on >>
From the cutting room floor...Handsy Heydon goes to Perth ... Celebrity tour ... Conferenceville ... Dicey's job application speech from 2002 ... Other High Court judges mocked as "vegetables" ... Mason CJ ridiculed ... Speech bowdlerised for public consumption ... Courage of conviction MIA ... From our National Affairs Correspondent ... Read more >>
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Bradley John Murdoch RIP ... Much more than the headlines ... Devoted family man ... Respected prisoner ... Great in the kitchen ... Generous and gentle ... Plus, the three missing KCs ... Former Law Institute President Christopher Dale issues a statement on behalf of the family ... More >>
London Calling ... Sizzling in the Old Dart ... Story of the complaining law graduate ... Tattle Life brought to book ... Beckham family feud over royal gong ... Floyd Alexander-Hunt's postcard ... Read more >>
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Zeitgeist litigation ... Matt Collins KC on live-streaming of high-profile trials ... Social media nightmare ... Abuse of barristers ... Chilling emails ... Trials as a form of public entertainment ... Courts sleepwalking into a dangerous zone ... Framework needed to balance competing interests ... Paper delivered to Australian Lawyers Alliance Conference ... Read more >>
The Circumlocution Office ... "Reform" of legal fees - four centuries of chicanery ... Tulkinghorn awards prizes for "reforms" that increase legal costs ... Jacking-up revenue by replacing "necessary or proper" costs with "fair and reasonable" costs ... From Justinian's Archive, January 17, 2012 ... Read more >>
Procrustes • Sunday, July 28, 2019 How Boris Johnson peddled falsehoods all the way to Number 10 ... Perverse denunciation of European Court of Justice ruling about third-party insurance for off-road vehicles ... Beats-ups from Telegraph columnist that appeal to little Englanders ... "Undemocratic law-making" in a post-truth era ... Vnuked by the facts ... Procrustes on the case
On The Couch • Wednesday, July 24, 2019 Veteran broadcaster, foreign correspondent, columnist and acidic Twitterer is on Justinian's Couch ... A masterful wordsmith ... Tireless combatant of the Murdocracy ... Issues with refrigeration and Christian piety ... The lure of the sea and its saltiness ... T.E.F. Hughes at the urinal ... Raging against the dying of the light
Critics Corner, Miss Lumière • Thursday, July 18, 2019 A new film from the maker of Lives of Others ... Portrait of a young artist in Germany during and after the war ... Sterilisation of the "unfit" ... The aunt, the artist, the Nazi doctor and his daughter ... A romantic epic about art, love and war, reviewed by Miss Lumière
Hellfire Club • Tuesday, July 16, 2019 The NSW CA turns down two appeals from solicitors in strife with the Bureau de Spank ... Old timer's dodgy dealings with estates and property ... Suspended with conditions ... Now struck off the jam roll ... Another solicitor forgot to tell the Law Society about her suspension as a migration agent ... So many things to worry about ... Duty of candour ... Janek Drevikovsky reports
Court in the Act • Thursday, July 11, 2019 Sal Vasta in fresh horror ... More bullying, overbearing and threatening conduct from the judge ... Vasta makes a pig's ear out of application to amend a statement of claim ... Transcript reveals Vasta's alarming judicial style ... Litigant in person removed from court ... Janek Drevikovsky reports